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NWS Headquarters Organization and Structure

NWS Organizational Components:

NWS Assistant Administrator's Staff Offices:

NWS Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management

NWS International Activities Office

• International Satellite Communication System

NWS Strategic Planning and Policy Office

• Industrial Meteorology in the NWS

NWS Communications Office

NWS Office of the Chief Financial Officer/Chief Administrative Officer

NWS Office of the Chief Information Officer

NWS Headquarters Offices:

NWS Office of Executive Affairs

NWS Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services

• Weather Services
• Aviation Weather Services Branch
• Climate Services Division
• NOAA Regional Climate Centers
• Fire and Public Weather Services Branch
• Hydrologic Services Division
• Hydrologic Services Branch
• Hydrologic Information Center
• Service Hydrology Program
• Hydrologic Support Branch
• WHFS Field Support Group (limited to NOAA employees only)
• National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (snow information)
• Airborne Snow Survey Program
• U.S. and Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover
• Marine and Coastal Weather Services Branch
• Operations and Requirements Division
• Training Division
• Dissemination Services (NOAA Radio and other communication programs)
• NOAA Weather Radio
• NOAA Weather Wire Service
• Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
• State Data
• Internet Weather Source
• U.S. and State Maps and Forecasts (NWS Homepage)
• Marine Forecasts
• Radar Graphics and Data
• Weather Charts on the Net
• Aviation Weather (METAR/TAF data)
• NOAAPORT User's Page
• Family of Services
• Commercial Weather Providers Serving the U.S.

NWS Office of Hydrologic Development

• Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service
• Community Hydrologic Prediction System (CHPS)
• Hydrology Laboratory
• Hydrologic Science & Modeling Branch
• Hydrometeorological Design Studies Center (HDSC)
• Hydrologic Software Engineering Branch
• Planning, Programming, and Coordination (PPC) Group
• RFC (River Forecast Center) Development Management

NWS Office of Operational Systems

• Field Systems Operations Center
• AWIPS (Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System) Support Branch
• Observing Systems Branch
• Software Branch
• Test and Evaluation Branch
• Operations Division
• Telecommunication Operations Center
• National Data Buoy Center
• C-MAN Program (Coastal-Marine Automated Network)
• Voluntary Observing Ship Project (VOS)
• RADAR Operations Center (NEXRAD)

NWS Office of Science and Technology

• Programs and Plans Division (PPD)
• Meteorological Development Laboratory (MDL)
• Systems Engineering Center
• AWIPS Technology Infusion

NWS National Centers:

NWS National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)

• Office of the Director
• Aviation Weather Center
• Climate Prediction Center
• Environmental Modeling Center
• Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
• National Hurricane Center
• NCEP Central Operations
• Ocean Prediction Center
• Space Weather Prediction Center
• Storm Prediction Center

NWS National Data Buoy Center

• C-MAN Program (Coastal-Marine Automated Network)
• Voluntary Observing Ship Project (VOS)

NWS Hydrologic Information Center

NWS National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (Snow information)

NWS Training Center

NWS Telecommunications Operations Center

NWS Regional Offices:

• Eastern Region Headquarters (Bohemia, NY)
• Southern Region Headquarters (Fort Worth, TX)
• Central Regional Headquarters (Kansas City, MO)
• Western Region Headquarters (Salt Lake City, UT)
• Alaska Region Headquarters (Anchorage, AK)
• West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
• Pacific Region Headquarters (Honolulu, HI)
• Central Pacific Hurricane Center
• Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

NWS Weather Forecast Offices (by region):

• NOAA Browser's NWS Forecast Offices index page
• Eastern Region Weather Forecast Offices Index
• Southern Region Weather Forecast Offices Index
• Central Region Weather Forecast Offices Index
• Western Region Weather Forecast Offices Index
• Alaska Region Weather Forecast Offices Index
• Pacific Region Weather Forecast Offices Index

NWS River Forecast Centers Index

Related Sites:

• American Meteorological Society
• Climate Program Office (NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division - conducts weather and climate research to observe and understand Earth's physical environment, and to improve weather and climate predictions on global-to-local scales (NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• International Tsunami Information Center
• JetStream: the National Weather Service Online Weather School
• National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) - world’s largest active archive of weather data (NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service)
• National Severe Storms Laboratory (NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• National Weather Service Education/Outreach
• National Weather Service Public Affairs Office / NWS Media Contacts
• Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology
• Spaceflight Meteorology Group (National Weather Service)
• State Climate Offices: American Association of State Climatologists
• Weather and Climate Sites (NOAA Central Library)
• Weather Education Resources
• Weather Safety/Emergency Preparedness Brochures/Fact Sheets/Information (National Weather Service)

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